Category: Weapon
Size: ~2.5 ft long, 3 ft wide
Weight:20 lbs
Value: $200
Description
With their shortage of access to the materials needed to mass-produce bullets or guns, an alternative, cheaper solution for hunting and long ranged weapons become necessary. The people of Phanes Bay, after some experimentation, ended up extracting the coil springs from the many cars that now stood unused in their streets and began to use these springs (as well as scrap metal from the cars) to create crossbows which are commonly referred to as 'Scrapshots.'
A Scrapshot is made from wood. A long hole is cut into the main body, which will have a metal mount sticking out of it. This mount is attached to one of end of a spring located inside the main body of the crossbow. A pair of wooden walls flank the mount, which are used to guide and stabilize the bolt. A scrapshot does possess strings along its side, like other crossbows, but these are used to provide the initial launch- most of the crossbow's force comes from the spring located beneath the bolt.
Users of a Scrapshot often have to build up significant upper body strength to be able to draw it in a speedy manner, but the weapons are capable of penetrating bone with ease.
Category: Weapon
Size: ~2.5 ft long, 3 ft wide
Weight:20 lbs
Value: $200
Description
With their shortage of access to the materials needed to mass-produce bullets or guns, an alternative, cheaper solution for hunting and long ranged weapons become necessary. The people of Phanes Bay, after some experimentation, ended up extracting the coil springs from the many cars that now stood unused in their streets and began to use these springs (as well as scrap metal from the cars) to create crossbows which are commonly referred to as 'Scrapshots.'
A Scrapshot is made from wood. A long hole is cut into the main body, which will have a metal mount sticking out of it. This mount is attached to one of end of a spring located inside the main body of the crossbow. A pair of wooden walls flank the mount, which are used to guide and stabilize the bolt. A scrapshot does possess strings along its side, like other crossbows, but these are used to provide the initial launch- most of the crossbow's force comes from the spring located beneath the bolt.
Users of a Scrapshot often have to build up significant upper body strength to be able to draw it in a speedy manner, but the weapons are capable of penetrating bone with ease.